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The 56th quadrennial United States presidential election was held on November 4, 2008. Democratic party member Barack Obama, the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican Party member John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona. Barack Obama became the 44th president of United States. He is the first African-American president of the United States and the first person of color to govern a country with a white majority. The U.S. Presidential elections had world wide attention as the victory speech of Barack Obama’s inspired many people worldwide and won spontaneous applauses from the crowd. Obama is a person who prioritizes logic over sentiment, discussion over conflicts and awareness over blind belief, which were observed in his campaigning. No president had ever influenced the United States into both an unfair war and financial crisis of the uncontrolled magnitude as done by George W Bush. He did significant harm to his country and the World. So, people of US wished for positive change and elected Barack Obama as their president. The main slogan of his campaigning is ‘CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN’ which influenced people. His Environmental policy, Fuel efficiency policy, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) policies attracted public.